A View of Egypt by Satellite
The Fertile Nile Valley
The Annual Flooding of the Nile Sirius, the Dog Star
Nile Irrigation-the Shaduf
Ancient Egyptian History PeriodsTime Frame Nile Culture Begins3900 B. C. E. Archaic3100 – 2650 B. C. E. Old Kingdom2650 – 2134 B. C. E. Middle Kingdom2040 – 1640 B. C. E. New Kingdom1550 – 1070 B. C. E. Late Period750 – 332 B. C. E. Greek Ptolemaic Era332 – 30 B. C. E. Roman Period30 B. C. E. – 395 C. E.
Menes: Unifier of Upper & Lower Egypt c 3050 BCE?
Ancient Egyptian Housing Middle Class Homes Peasant Homes
Scenes of Ancient Egyptian Daily Life
Making Ancient Egyptian Beer
Making Ancient Egyptian Wine
An Egyptian Woman’s “Must-Haves” Perfume Whigs Mirror
Egyptian Social Hierarchy
Some Famous Egyptian Pharaohs Thutmose III B. C. E. Ramses II B. C. E. Tutankhamon B. C. E.
Egyptian Nobility
Egyptian Priestly Class
Egyptian Scribe
Papyrus Paper Papyrus Plant Hieratic Scroll Piece
Egyptian Math & Draftsmenship ,000100,0001,000,000 What number is this?
Champollion & the Rosetta Stone Napoleon conquest in the early 1800s (France)
Hieroglyphic “Cartouche”
Hieroglyphics “Alphabet” 24 “letters” phonetic symbols
Egyptian Creation Myth The Goddess Nut
Egyptian Gods & Goddesses: “The Sacred ‘Trinity’” Osiris Isis Horus
Preparations for the Underworld Priests protected your KA, or soul-spirit ANUBIS weighs the dead person’s heart against a feather.
Materials Used in Mummification 1. Linen 6. Natron 2. Sawdust 7. Onion 3. Lichen 8. Nile Mud 4. Beeswax 9. Linen Pads 5. Resin 10. Frankinsense
Preparation for the Afterlife
Egyptian Mummies Seti I B. C. E. Queen Tiye, wife of Amenhotep II B. C. E. Ramses II B. C. E.
Journey to the Underworld A boat for the journey is provided for a dead pharaoh in his tomb. The dead travel on the “Solar Bark.”
Egyptian Book of the Dead
The Final Judgement Anubis Horus Osiris
Shabtis: The Pharaoh’s Servants in the Afterlife
Stepped Pyramid at Saqqara
“Bent” Pyramid of King Sneferu
Giza Pyramid Complex
Plan of the Great Pyramid of Khufu
The Valley of the Kings
Archaeologist, Howard Carter (1922)
Entrance to King “Tut’s” Tomb
King Tutankhamon’s Death Mask BC E
King Tutankhamon
King Tutankhamun’s Tomb
Treasures From Tut’s Tomb
The Valley of the Queens Temple of Queen Hatshepsut B. C. E.
Ankhenaton: First Monotheist? B. C. E.
The Ankh – The “Cross” of Life
Queen Nefertiti
Abu Simbel: Monument to Ramses II B. C. E.
Who Are These Strange People?
Routes of the “Sea Peoples” The end of the Bronze Age!